Economics of Education Review

1981 - 2025

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Volume 26, issue 6, 2007

In memoriam: Jean-Claude Eicher pp. 643-644

Benoit Millot

Introduction to the special issue in memory of Jean-Claude Eicher: The Second Dijon Conference pp. 645-647

Benoit Millot

Student achievement conditioned upon school selection: Religious and secular secondary school quality in Bangladesh pp. 648-659

M Asadullah, Nazmul Chaudhury and Amit Dar

Do teachers' wages matter for proficiency? Evidence from a funding reform in Brazil pp. 660-672

Naercio Menezes-Filho and Elaine Pazello

Teacher credentials and student achievement: Longitudinal analysis with student fixed effects pp. 673-682

Charles T. Clotfelter, Helen Ladd and Jacob Vigdor

The determinants and impact of private tutoring classes in Vietnam pp. 683-698

Hai-Anh Dang

The public returns to public educational investments in African-American males pp. 699-708

Henry Levin, Clive Belfield, Peter Muennig and Cecilia Rouse

What does it take to achieve equality of opportunity in education?: An empirical investigation based on Brazilian data pp. 709-723

Fábio Waltenberg and Vincent Vandenberghe

Family background, financial constraints and higher education attendance in China pp. 724-734

Wenli Li

Distributional effects of educational improvements: Are we using the wrong model? pp. 735-746

François Bourguignon and Frederic Rogers

Aspiration levels and educational choices: An experimental study pp. 747-757

Lionel Page, Louis Levy Garboua and Claude Montmarquette

Schools, skills and risk pp. 758-770

Joop Hartog and Wim Vijverberg

The effects of education quality on income growth and mortality decline pp. 771-788

Eliot A. Jamison, Dean Jamison and Eric Hanushek

Volume 26, issue 5, 2007

Overeducation in the graduate labour market: A quantile regression approach pp. 521-531

Seamus McGuinness and Jessica Bennett

From districts to schools: The distribution of resources across schools in big city school districts pp. 532-545

Ross Rubenstein, Amy Schwartz, Leanna Stiefel and Hella Bel Hadj Amor

The economic impact of colleges and universities pp. 546-558

John Siegfried, Allen R. Sanderson and Peter McHenry

Evidence on the returns to secondary vocational education pp. 559-573

Jonathan Meer

Minimum wage effects on educational enrollments in New Zealand pp. 574-587

Gail Pacheco and Amy Cruickshank

Positive outcomes from poor starts: Predictors of dropping back in pp. 588-603

Laura E. Hill and Christopher Jepsen

The influence of childhood maltreatment on adolescents' academic performance pp. 604-614

Eric P. Slade and Lawrence S. Wissow

Do school teacher parents make a difference? pp. 615-628

Isaac McFarlin

Schooling and test scores: A mother-natural experiment pp. 629-640

Dave Marcotte

Our Underachieving Colleges: A Candid Look at How Much Students Learn and Why They Should Be Learning More, Derek Bok. Princeton University Press, Princeton and Oxford (2006). ($29.95), ISBN:978-0-691-12596-1 pp. 641-642

W. Patrick Leonard

Volume 26, issue 4, 2007

Education and job match: The relatedness of college major and work pp. 397-407

John Robst

Wage effects of an extra year of basic vocational education pp. 408-419

Hessel Oosterbeek and Dinand Webbink

Immigrant overeducation: Evidence from recent arrivals to Australia pp. 420-432

Colin Green, Parvinder Kler and Gareth Leeves

Quality, tuition, and applications to in-state public colleges pp. 433-449

DeForest McDuff

The role of high school performance in explaining women's rising college enrollment pp. 450-462

Donghun Cho

Secondary school extracurricular involvement and academic achievement: a fixed effects approach pp. 463-472

Stephen Lipscomb

Does performance related pay for teachers improve student performance? Some evidence from India pp. 473-486

Geeta Kingdon and Francis Teal

Educational production and teacher preferences pp. 487-500

Ryan Bosworth and Frank Caliendo

Parental choice and school quality when peer and scale effects matter pp. 501-515

Terry O'Shaughnessy

Research note: Athletic graduation rates and Simpson's Paradox pp. 516-520

Victor Matheson

Volume 26, issue 3, 2007

Does examination hell pay off ? A cost-benefit analysis of "ronin" and college education in Japan pp. 271-284

Hiroshi Ono

For whom the Pell tolls: The response of university tuition to federal grants-in-aid pp. 285-295

Larry Singell and Joe Stone

The influence of financial aid in leveling group differences in graduating from elite institutions pp. 296-311

Sigal Alon

Teacher qualifications and early learning: Effects of certification, degree, and experience on first-grade student achievement pp. 312-324

Robert G. Croninger, Jennifer King Rice, Amy Rathbun and Masako Nishio

Understanding the level and causes of teacher turnover: A comparison with other professions pp. 325-337

Douglas Harris and Scott Adams

Public versus private university presidents pay levels and structure pp. 338-348

James Monks

Language skills and earnings: Evidence from a pre-industrial economy in the Bolivian Amazon pp. 349-360

Ricardo Godoy, Victoria Reyes-Garcia, Craig Seyfried, Tomas Huanca, William R. Leonard, Thomas McDade, Susan Tanner and Vincent Vadez

Academic performance, childhood economic resources, and the choice to leave school at age 16 pp. 361-374

Sholeh Maani and Guyonne Kalb

Using conjoint analysis to estimate employers preferences for key competencies of master level Dutch graduates entering the public health field pp. 375-386

R.G. Biesma, Milena Pavlova, G.G. van Merode and W. Groot

A theoretical assessment of regional development effects on the demand for general education pp. 387-394

Roki Iwahashi

Erratum to: "Comparative benefit-cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications": [Econ. Educ. Rev. 26 (2007) 113-125] pp. 395-396

W. Barnett and Leonard N. Masse

Volume 26, issue 2, 2007

Race, poverty, and teacher mobility pp. 145-159

Benjamin Scafidi, David Sjoquist and Todd Stinebrickner

A descriptive analysis of the distribution of NBPTS-certified teachers in North Carolina pp. 160-172

Dan Goldhaber, Hyung-Jai Choi and Lauren Cramer

On the use of student data in efficiency analysis--Technical efficiency in Swedish upper secondary school pp. 173-185

Staffan Waldo

The health effects of education pp. 186-200

Wim Groot and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

Grades as information pp. 201-214

Darren Grant

Are successive investments in education equally worthwhile? Endogenous schooling decisions and non-linearities in the earnings-schooling relationship pp. 215-231

Ali Skalli

Monetizing college reputation: The case of Taiwan's engineering and medical schools pp. 232-243

Hung-Lin Tao

The influence of the US News and World Report collegiate rankings on the matriculation decision of high-ability students: 1995-2004 pp. 244-255

Amanda Griffith and Kevin Rask

Rachel Connelly, Deborah S. DeGraff, Rachel A.Willis. Kids at Work: The Value of Employer-Sponsored On-site Child Care Centers. W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, Kalamazoo, MI (2004), ISBN 0-88099-304-9 (175pp, $16.00, Paper) pp. 257-258

David Ribar

Clive R. Belfield and M. Levin Henry, Editors, Privatizing educational choices: Consequences for parents, schools and public policy, Paradigm Publishers, Boulder, London (2005) ix-225pp pp. 259-260

Gerhard Glomm

Sara McLanahan (Eds.), School Readiness: Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps; A special issue of the journal The Future of Children, Princeton University and Brookings Institution, Princeton, NJ, ISBN: 0-8157-5559-7, 2005 ($40.00, 2005, 196pp.) pp. 261-262

Douglas N. Harris

The Political Economy of Education: Implications for Growth and Inequality. M. Gradstein, M. Justman, V. Meier. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (2005). 169 pp., $32, ISBN:0-262-07256-4 pp. 263-264

Robert Bifulco

Sylvia A. Allegretto, Sean P. Corcoran and Lawrence Mishel, How does teacher pay compare? Methodological challenges and answers, Economic Policy Institute, Washington, DC (2004) ISBN 1-932066-14-4 58pp pp. 265-266

John M. Krieg

Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy. Betts, J.R., Loveless, T. (Eds.), Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (2005), ISBN 0815753314 (255pp., index. $49.95 (cloth), $19.95 (paper)) pp. 267-268

Malcolm Getz

Who's in charge here? The tangled web of school governance and policy. N. Epstein (Ed.), Brookings Institution Press The Washington, DC and Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO (2004) ISBN: 0-8157-2472-1, (303pp, $ 32.95, cloth); ISBN: 0-8157-2471-3 ($22.95 paper) pp. 269-270

Sunwoong Kim

Volume 26, issue 1, 2007

Introduction to the special issue `The economics of early childhood education' Economics of education review pp. 1-2

Clive R. Belfield

Educational vouchers for universal pre-schools pp. 3-16

Henry Levin and Heather L. Schwartz

The effects of welfare and employment programs on children's participation in Head Start pp. 17-32

Young Eun Chang, Aletha C. Huston, Danielle A. Crosby and Lisa A. Gennetian

Does prekindergarten improve school preparation and performance? pp. 33-51

Katherine A. Magnuson, Christopher Ruhm and Jane Waldfogel

How much is too much? The influence of preschool centers on children's social and cognitive development pp. 52-66

Susanna Loeb, Margaret Bridges, Daphna Bassok, Bruce Fuller and Russell W. Rumberger

Does full-day kindergarten matter? Evidence from the first two years of schooling pp. 67-82

Philip DeCicca

Getting inside the "Black Box" of Head Start quality: What matters and what doesn't pp. 83-99

Janet Currie and Matthew Neidell

Do peers influence children's skill development in preschool? pp. 100-112

Gary T. Henry and Dana K. Rickman

Comparative benefit-cost analysis of the Abecedarian program and its policy implications pp. 113-125

W. Barnett and Leonard N. Masse

Benefits and costs of investments in preschool education: Evidence from the Child-Parent Centers and related programs pp. 126-144

Judy Temple and Arthur J. Reynolds